Holy Cross Chapel (Wesseling)

Wesseling, Holy Cross Chapel. Left in the background the Dikopshof.

The Holy Cross Chapel is a Roman Catholic church in Wesseling in the Rhein-Erft district . It is located to the west of the village at Dikopshof and is entered with this ensemble in the list of monuments of the city of Wesseling.

history

For the Dikopshof a feudal man of the Cologne Severinsstift is attested as early as 1202 , and there was probably a court chapel there as early as the Middle Ages . Today's Holy Cross Chapel was built in 1716 in the Baroque style. The builder was Johann Peter von Herwegh, the former mayor of Cologne, who inherited the farm in 1702. The chapel, which was neglected in the course of the 19th century, was restored by the Pingen family in the second half of the 19th century and has been the station of the Corpus Christi processions since then. On the commemoration day of the 300th anniversary of the completion of the Holy Cross Chapel, the Wesselingen parish of St. Andreas donated and consecrated a new altar cross for the chapel.

Furnishing

The interior is kept simple, there is a simple wooden table altar, on the east wall a crucifix and on the north wall stations of the cross in the style of historicism. The room has a flat ceiling and is not structured, in the area above the choir the ceiling is coffered . Wall paintings from 1879 were damaged in the Second World War.